From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: win32ada design question/problem
Date: 1998/11/18
Date: 1998-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72vgr6$rv5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3653142f.218516@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net
In article <3653142f.218516@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> >: System.Address does not nessecarily map to a C pointer
> >I would not worry about the portability of System.Address
> I know at least one Intel-targetted Ada 95 compiler that uses 48 bits
> for System.Address - 16 bit segment and 32 bit offset. It may be that
> it knows that pragma Interface to C means the segment is ignored and
> should be tossed - I haven't had occasion to test that.
Hmmm. This is enough in and of itself to make me back off using
System.Address. However, I have to wonder what its good for, if I can't
interface to other langauges with it.
Could making this portable possibly be the subject of a future AI?
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-13 0:00 win32ada design question/problem Mats Weber
1998-11-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-19 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-11-19 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Roga Danar
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1998-11-19 0:00 tmoran
1998-11-19 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-24 0:00 ` dennison
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